Program
Campus map and directions are available here.
The program booklet is available here.
Friday, April 13, 2018
08:00am—05:00pm : NESS Short Courses at Life Sciences Laboratory (LSL) and Integrated Sciences Building (ISB).
Saturday, April 14, 2018
All events will be held in the UMass Student Union Ballroom unless otherwise noted. Invited sessions will be held in the UMass Campus Center.
| 08:30am - 09:15am | Registration (On-site registration welcome) |
| 09:15am - 09:30am | Opening Remarks: Nicholas Reich (UMass-Amherst Biostatistics, NESS Program Chair) and John McCarthy (UMass-Amherst, Interim Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs) |
| 09:30am - 10:30am | Keynote Presentation: Montse Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University, sponsored by UMass Center for Data Science |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | DataCamp Parallel Invited Sessions |
| 12:15pm - 01:30pm | Lunch |
| 01:30pm - 02:30pm | Keynote Presentation: Dawn Woodard, Senior Data Scientist of Maps, Uber, sponsored by UMass Center for Data Science |
| 02:30pm - 02:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 02:45pm - 04:15pm | Travelers Insurance Parallel Invited Sessions |
| 04:15pm - 05:45pm | MassMutual Poster Session and Awards/Happy Hour |
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| 05:45pm - 06:00pm |
IBM Student Paper and Mass Mutual Poster Awards Closing Remarks: Patrick Flaherty (UMass-Amherst Department of Mathematics and Statistics) |
| 06:30pm - 09:00pm |
Dinner at Lord Jeffery Inn (pre-registration required) See Travel and Accomodations for more information. |